Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIn marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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The world has no room for cowards.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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