Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere 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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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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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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 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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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 web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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