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" Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

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" We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it. "

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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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" In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. "

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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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" 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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" The obscurest epoch is today. "

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" To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. "

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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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" Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. "

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" I've a grand memory for forgetting. "

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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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" When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine. "

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" Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. "

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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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" Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. "

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" The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty. "

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" Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. "

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" Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. "

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" Every man has a sane spot somewhere. "

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" The world has no room for cowards. "

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" It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. "

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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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" 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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" Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. "

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" Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. "

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