There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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
Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality they are the perfect duties. If your morals make you dreary, depend on it they are wrong. I do not say, 'give them up,' for they may be all you have but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better men.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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