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To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little and spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary, and not be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation - above all, on the same grim conditions to keep friends with himself- here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

Robert Louis Stevenson