You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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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 world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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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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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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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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