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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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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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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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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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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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