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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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Arrive Better Hopefully Thing Travel
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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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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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Friendship Marriage One Liner Police Recognize
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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All Ashamed Know Our Parliament
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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Between Come Difference Dinner Fast Good Life Long Only Sweet
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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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Else Must People Person Read Share Someone Want
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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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Divine Down Father Glad Honor Human Least Shall
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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Gift Habit Look Much Nature Offer Spirit
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Banquest Consequence Down Everybody Late Sit Soon
Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Brute Force Last Made Nothing
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Alone Bread Catchword Creature Live Man Primarily Upen

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