The obscurest epoch is today.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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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.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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