We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThat man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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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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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.
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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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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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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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