There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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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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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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 price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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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