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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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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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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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