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No man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Necessary Perhaps Politics Preparation Profession Thought
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
Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Baby Buddhist Feel Impression Make Our Own Same Vegetarian Yet
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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Impossible Likely Man Portrait Posterity Respect Scene Spirit
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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Give Grace Preserve Strength
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Action Appear Good Inevitable Mark Retrospect
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Dead Find Hearer Language Prepare Speech Spoken Until Willing Written
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Book Enough Good Life Own Poor Substitute Way
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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Change Child Condition Fiction Grown Many Outward
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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All Ashamed Know Our Parliament
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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Body Come Cry House Many Ourselves Ove Passer Show Window
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Day Each Harvest Judge Plant Reep Seed
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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All Cruise Last Old One Liner Young
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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Away Fight Perish Stand Time Weakness
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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Best Find Friend Hornet Traveler Wilderness World
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Ancestor Arboreal Each Probably Sit Top Tree
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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Accept Actual Full Made Must Quality Stature Stuff
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Banquet Consequence Down Everyone Later Sit Sooner
No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Friend Man No Useless While
Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Brute Force Last Made Nothing
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Fellowship More Perfect Quite Rightly Solitude Understood
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.
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Expect Scream Sometimes Surprise Sweep Theory Torrent
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Among Country Good Idea Make Moral Neighbor People Should
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Lie Often Silent Told Vest
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Almost Friend Indespensible Long Love Other Useless
It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Have Pleasant Ten Thing Toe Young
An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Art Elegant Foundation Literature Pregnant Style Texture

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