Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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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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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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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