The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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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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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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