Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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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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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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