There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo forget oneself is to be happy.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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