You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBy being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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