Nothing like a little judicious levity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONA friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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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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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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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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