By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAn elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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?
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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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