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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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 forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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