It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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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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