The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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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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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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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 is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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