When 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.
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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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