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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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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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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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