We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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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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