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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

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For my part, 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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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So long as we love, we serve; 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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

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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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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: November 13th, 1850

Died: December 3rd, 1894

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