There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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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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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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