In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe obscurest epoch is today.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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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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