Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWhen I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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