Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo 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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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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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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