By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEvery 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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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For my part, 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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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