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" If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Morals
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" Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own. "
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" Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. "
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" Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly. "
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" Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. "
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" The world has no room for cowards. "
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" The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. "
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" To 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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