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" We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

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" Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. "

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" When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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" You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage. "

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