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" We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Live
One Thing
Scale
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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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" 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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" Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. "
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Dies
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" The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. "
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Very
Thing
" If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. "
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Depend
Your
" Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. "
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Cruise
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" Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. "
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Good
Matter
" 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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Month
Doctor
" To forget oneself is to be happy. "
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" A friend is a gift you give yourself. "
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You
Yourself
Friend
" 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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Him
You
Expect
" Wine is bottled poetry. "
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Bottled
Food
Wine
" 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? "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Stand
Fight
You
" You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else. "
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Some
Share
Must
" Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Friends
Courage
Strength
" You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else. "
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Yourself
Joke
Share
" Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Left
Married
Nothing
" Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Bread
Alone
Who
" There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Happy
People
Saying
" Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Heart
Tradition
Inspirational
" 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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Man
Friend
Long
" 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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Nature
Much
Looking
" Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Man
Devotion
Business
" In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Man
Being
Marriage
" That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. "
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Lived
Well
Success
" Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. "
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" It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. "
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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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Sit
" 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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Friend
World
Travel