Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAll human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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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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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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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 no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer 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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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