A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
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To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an non-teachable brat, well birched and none the wiser
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His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.
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Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity
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If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife
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