To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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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The world has no room for cowards.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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 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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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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