Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONFiction 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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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 price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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