Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAn elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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An 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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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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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