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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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Give Love never Without
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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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Become Capable End Life Only
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Have Pleasant Ten Thing Toe Young
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
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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Avoid Correct Eye Friend Kill Nothing Say Silence Transgreed
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Devoted Excercise Intellectual Life Some Succeed Wholly
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
Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Cathedral Happy Inspire Made Mankind never So
You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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Body Kill Not One Liner Spirit
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Cause Die Hard Man Obstinate Outlive Some Vanity
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Clock During Fortune Frighten Mind Misfortune Pace Private Quite
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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Body Come Cry House Many Ourselves Ove Passer Show Window
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Alone Bread Catchword Creature Live Man Primarily Upen
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Every Man Sane Somewhere Spot
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Courage Fera Keep Other Share Yourself
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Almost Friend Indespensible Long Love Other Useless
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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Could Else Joke One People Read Share Some Want Yourself
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Friend Gift Gove One Liner Yourself
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Enemy Friend Readiest Suppress Truth Weapon
So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Ling Love Other Serve So
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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