The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIf 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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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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.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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