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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. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Challenge
Quality
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" In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. "
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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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" You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else. "
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" The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty. "
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" Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own. "
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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 the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. "
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" If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. "
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" Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. "
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" Nothing like a little judicious levity. "
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" Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. "
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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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Sake
" I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. "
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" 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 only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. "
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