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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOf what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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For my part, 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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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