I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAn elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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