By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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No man is useless while he has a 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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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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