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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Brute Force Last Made Nothing
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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Idele Identity Personal Require Sense Strong
The world has no room for cowards.
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Coward No Room World
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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Eye Keep Mercy Open
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Necessary Perhaps Politics Preparation Profession Thought
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Become Capable End Life Only
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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Century Glaringly Good Nineteenth People Person Pretty Well
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Judious Levity Little Nothing
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Book Enough Good Life Own Poor Substitute Way
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Arouse Cannibalism Disgust More Nothing Strongly
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Being Condition Dominate Freed Habit Happy Largely
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Church Favorite Great Kind Mountain never Scenery Wear
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Banquest Consequence Down Everybody Late Sit Soon
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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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Chequered Conversation Dispute Long Marriage One
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Another Ascend Endless Happily Lead Live Scale Series Thing
So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Ling Love Other Serve So
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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Change Child Condition Fiction Grown Many Outward
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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Call God Labor Love Question Success Tarde

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