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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. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

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" It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. "

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

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

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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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" I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. "

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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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" It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes. "

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" We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. "

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" The cruelest lies are often told in silence. "

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" Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police. "

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

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" Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends? "

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" I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. "

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" A friend is a gift you give yourself. "

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

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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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" You can kill the body but not the spirit. "

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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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" To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. "

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" To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life. "

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" Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide. "

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" If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. "

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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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