Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe 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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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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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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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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