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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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Eye Keep Mercy Open
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 truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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