There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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 man has a sane spot somewhere.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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 web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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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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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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