Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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