To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

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...

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute...

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute...

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

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

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you...

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you...

The saints are the sinners who keep on going

The saints are the sinners who keep on going

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

For God's sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a...

For God's sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a...

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

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

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon...

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon...

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others,...

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others,...

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his...

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his...

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...

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

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

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it...

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it...

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the...

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the...

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And...

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And...

In this day and age, some turn 18 and think they're a man or a...

In this day and age, some turn 18 and think they're a man or a...

My mother...she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel....

My mother...she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel....