We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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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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The obscurest epoch is today.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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