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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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Air Beauty Claim Forest Heart Make Much Quality Something
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
When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Boy Estate Grown Man Meddle Proud Shall Tell Toy
Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Baby Buddhist Feel Impression Make Our Own Same Vegetarian Yet
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 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
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Become Degeneration Fatty Man Marriage Moral Being Selfish Slack Undergoes
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
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Cause Die Hard Man Obstinate Outlive Some Vanity
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Friend Man Proud Shall
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
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Every Man Sane Somewhere Spot
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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Change Child Condition Fiction Grown Many Outward
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Necessary Perhaps Politics Preparation Profession Thought
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Book Enough Good Life Own Poor Substitute Way
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Banquet Consequence Down Everyone Later Sit Sooner

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