Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOur business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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