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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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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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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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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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