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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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" 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. "

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" Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. "

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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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" 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 can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage. "

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