The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBooks are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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The world has no room for cowards.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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