Everyone lives by selling something.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONPolitics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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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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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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