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" Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
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" No man is useless while he has a friend. "
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" It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face. "
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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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" Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. "
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" If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. "
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" To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life. "
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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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" 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. "
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" A friend is a gift you give yourself. "
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" There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. "
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" Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. "
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" Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. "
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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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" The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. "
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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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" The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye. "
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" Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health. "
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" I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. "
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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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" Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police. "
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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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" Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. "
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" It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. "
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" The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. "
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" Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. "
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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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" 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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