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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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 habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Friend Man Proud Shall
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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Idele Identity Personal Require Sense Strong
It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Have Pleasant Ten Thing Toe Young
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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Express Good Happy Make May More Much Myself Nearly Neighbour Say
The obscurest epoch is today.
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Epoch Obscurest Today
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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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Bottle Poetry Wine
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Almost Friend Indespensible Long Love Other Useless
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Friend Gift Gove One Liner Yourself
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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Eye Keep Mercy Open
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Ancestor Arboreal Each Probably Sit Top Tree
The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Appy Full King Number Sure Thing World
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
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
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Give Love never Without
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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