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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Become Capable End Life Only
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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Air Beauty Claim Forest Heart Make Much Quality Something
We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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Accept Actual Full Made Must Quality Stature Stuff
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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Dissolution Eye Fit Laugh Marriage Stare Tear Wife
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Become Degeneration Fatty Man Marriage Moral Being Selfish Slack Undergoes
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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Avoid Correct Eye Friend Kill Nothing Say Silence Transgreed
Wine is bottled poetry.
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Bottle Poetry Wine
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Being Condition Dominate Freed Habit Happy Largely
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Dead Find Hearer Language Prepare Speech Spoken Until Willing Written
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Cause Die Hard Man Obstinate Outlive Some Vanity
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Best Cheap Compromise Lawyer
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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Call God Labor Love Question Success Tarde
I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Almost Friend Indispensable Man No Say Should Useless
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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Affair Anywhere Great Move Sake Travel
When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Boy Estate Grown Man Meddle Proud Shall Tell Toy
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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Best Find Friend Hornet Traveler Wilderness World

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