To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAn elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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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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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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