By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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