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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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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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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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