When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAll human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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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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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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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