The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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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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