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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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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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Impossible Likely Man Portrait Posterity Respect Scene Spirit
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Friendship Marriage One Liner Police Recognize
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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Ambition Attempt Conceive Console Discourage Mediocre Most Pocket Wisdom
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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Accomplish Brave Doctor Hestitate Month Puch Week Year
We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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Accept Actual Full Made Must Quality Stature Stuff
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
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Behind Being Bettered Cheerful Every Heart Impulse Mankind Strong
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Action Appear Good Inevitable Mar Retrospect
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Among Country Good Idea Make Moral Neighbor People Should
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
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
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Best Cheap Compromise Lawyer
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Being Condition Dominate Freed Habit Happy Largely
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Day Each Harvest Judge Plant Reep Seed
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Essence Change Everything Outward Progress Same Ten Thousand
You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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Body Kill Not One Liner Spirit

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