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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Day Each Harvest Judge Plant Reep Seed
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Impossible Likely Man Portrait Posterity Respect Scene Spirit
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Another Ascend Endless Happily Lead Live Scale Series Thing
It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Have Pleasant Ten Thing Toe Young
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Book Enough Good Life Own Poor Substitute Way
Everyone lives by selling something.
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Everyone Live One Liner Sell Something
Wine is bottled poetry.
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Bottle Poetry Wine
It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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Almost Complete Education Enjoy Foster Found Friendship Health Money Profit State
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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Little More See Shadow Out Use
Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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Accomplish Brave Doctor Hestitate Month Puch Week Year
The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Full Happy King Number So Thing World
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Lie Often Silent Told Vest
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Fellowship More Perfect Quite Rightly Solitude Understood
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Banquest Consequence Down Everybody Late Sit Soon
One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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Express Good Happy Make May More Much Myself Nearly Neighbour Say
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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Change Child Condition Fiction Grown Many Outward
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Chequered Conversation Dispute Long Marriage One
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Friend Man Proud Shall
We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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Accept Actual Full Made Must Quality Stature Stuff
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Courage Fera Keep Other Share Yourself
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Hurry Indigestion Reap Sow
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Action Appear Good Inevitable Mark Retrospect
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Friend Gift Gove One Liner Yourself
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Daily Depend Make Morale Wrong
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Every Man Sane Somewhere Spot

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