We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAll speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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I 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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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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