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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. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
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" Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. "
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" Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police. "
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" We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest 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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" 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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" 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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" Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. "
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" There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. "
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" To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. "
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" The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. "
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" You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. "
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" Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. "
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" Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. "
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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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" 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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" You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? "
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" The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. "
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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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