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" It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Pleasant
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" Wine is bottled poetry. "
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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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" 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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" I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. "
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" Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. "
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" We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. "
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