Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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