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" The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Mark
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" Every man has a sane spot somewhere. "
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" That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. "
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" It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes. "
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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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" 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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" All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. "
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" The obscurest epoch is today. "
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" An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. "
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" He who sows hurry reaps indigestion. "
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" 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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Go
Sake
" Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. "
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" It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. "
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Eyes
" To forget oneself is to be happy. "
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" You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. "
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You
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Tell
" Nothing made by brute force lasts. "
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Brute
Nothing
Force
" 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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Quality
Grow
" Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly. "
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Though
He
" You can kill the body but not the spirit. "
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You
Spirit
" The cruelest lies are often told in silence. "
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Cruelest
Silence
Often
" 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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Man
Devotion
Business
" 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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Kings
Things
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Late
" 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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Much
Looking
" Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. "
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Others
Yourself
" 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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" 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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