You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI 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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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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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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