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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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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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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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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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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