Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONVanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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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.
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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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