Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMan is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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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