There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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