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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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Become Capable End Life Only
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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Call God Labor Love Question Success Tarde
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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Alive Amen Humble Instead Know Ought Prefer Soul Tell
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Cause Die Hard Man Obstinate Outlive Some Vanity
I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Almost Friend Indispensable Man No Say Should Useless
No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Friend Man No Useless While
Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Left Married Nothing Once Suicide
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Idele Identity Personal Require Sense Strong
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Another Ascend Endless Happily Lead Live Scale Series Thing
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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Essence Change Everything Outward Progress Same Ten Thousand
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Clock During Fortune Frighten Mind Misfortune Pace Private Quite
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Between Come Difference Dinner Fast Good Life Long Only Sweet
The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Full Happy King Number So Thing World
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Friend Man Proud Shall
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

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