Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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 it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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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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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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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