One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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