Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.

I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good...

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good...

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship...

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship...

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your...

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your...

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes...

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes...

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells...

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells...

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

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

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and...

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and...

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a...

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a...

The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a...

The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a...

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at...

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at...

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably...

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably...

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes...

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes...

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and...

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and...