Everyone lives by selling something.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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For my part, 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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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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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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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