No man is useless while he has a friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMan is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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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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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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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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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