There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEverybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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For my part, 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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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