The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEach has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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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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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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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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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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