Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe 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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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