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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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Almost Complete Education Enjoy Foster Found Friendship Health Money Profit State
When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Boy Estate Grown Man Meddle Proud Shall Tell Toy
To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Become Capable End Life Only
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Being Condition Dominate Freed Habit Happy Largely
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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Ambition Attempt Conceive Console Discourage Mediocre Most Pocket Wisdom
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Fellowship More Perfect Quite Rightly Solitude Understood
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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Between Come Difference Dinner Fast Good Life Long Only Sweet
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Absence Bright Delicate Gppd Influence Keep Love
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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Alive Amen Humble Instead Know Ought Prefer Soul Tell
By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Anonymous Being Benefit Happy Upon World
Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Baby Buddhist Feel Impression Make Our Own Same Vegetarian Yet
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Devil Gentlemen Sometimes Thing Very
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Become Degeneration Fatty Man Marriage Moral Being Selfish Slack Undergoes
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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Impossible Likely Man Portrait Posterity Respect Scene Spirit
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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Essence Change Everything Outward Progress Same Ten Thousand
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Book Enough Good Life Own Poor Substitute Way

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