An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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For my part, 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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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