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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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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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Almost Complete Education Enjoy Foster Found Friendship Health Money Profit State
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Church Favorite Great Kind Mountain never Scenery Wear
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Between Come Difference Dinner Fast Good Life Long Only Sweet
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
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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Essence Change Everything Outward Progress Same Ten Thousand
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
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Best Cheap Compromise Lawyer
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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Could Else Joke One People Read Share Some Want Yourself
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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Ambition Attempt Conceive Console Discourage Mediocre Most Pocket Wisdom
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Action Appear Good Inevitable Mark Retrospect
You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Else Must People Person Read Share Someone Want
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Aversion Border Close Indifference Regard
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

All Ashamed Know Our Parliament
Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Battle Bed Field Life Like Marriage Rose
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Devoted Excercise Intellectual Life Some Succeed Wholly
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Fellowship More Perfect Quite Rightly Solitude Understood

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