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" Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Long
Conversation
Disputes
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" There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. "
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" Nothing like a little judicious levity. "
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" A friend is a gift you give yourself. "
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" Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. "
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" There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may. "
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" To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. "
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" I've a grand memory for forgetting. "
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Thing
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Down
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" The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. "
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Action
Appears
" We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series. "
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Live
One Thing
Scale
" 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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" So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. "
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Others
Friend
Long
" 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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Challenge
Quality
Grow
" I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. "
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Aversion
You
Indifference
" 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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Great
Go
Sake
" If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. "
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Success
Fame
Trade
" Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. "
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Most
Pocket
People
" The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. "
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Friends
Weapon
Truth
" Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide. "
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Left
Married
Nothing
" To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. "
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Identity
Idle
" To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. "
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Only
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" So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. "
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Friend
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" We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it. "
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Parliament
Ashamed
" 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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You
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Language
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