It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAn elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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