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Wells Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
- We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts…
- To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet…
- To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and…
- A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.
- Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is…
- When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.
- ...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do…
- You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up…
- It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . .…
- That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
- Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
- The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love…
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
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- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
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