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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe 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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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