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To forget oneself is to be happy.

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

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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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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

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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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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

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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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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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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: November 13th, 1850

Died: December 3rd, 1894

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