Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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 can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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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.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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