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" To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
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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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" If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. "
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" There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. "
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" The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us. "
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" Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. "
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