The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing made by brute force lasts.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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