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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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Away Fight Perish Stand Time Weakness
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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Afterward Destiny Fatigue Lay Shall Thankfulness Turn Weapon
I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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Divine Down Father Glad Honor Human Least Shall
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Fellowship More Perfect Quite Rightly Solitude Understood
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Friend Man Proud Shall
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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Give Grace Preserve Strength
One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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Express Good Happy Make May More Much Myself Nearly Neighbour Say
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Card Good Hand Hold Life Matter Play Poor Well
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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Century Glaringly Good Nineteenth People Person Pretty Well
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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Little More See Shadow Out Use
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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Alive Amen Humble Instead Know Ought Prefer Soul Tell
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Another Ascend Endless Happily Lead Live Scale Series Thing
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Accesvle Pleasure Far Most One Liner Talk
To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Forget Happy Oneself
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Judious Levity Little Nothing
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Before Heaven Long Thing Us Well

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