"We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series."
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"Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living."
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"For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!"
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"It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with."
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"But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection."
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"Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall."
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"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health."
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"When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship."
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"Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses."
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"A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion."
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"Life is not a matter of holding good cards"
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"When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind."
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"Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill."
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"Take care of each other."
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"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in."
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"I've a grand memory for forgetting."
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"For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so."
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"Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind."
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"It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!"
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"We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit."
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