You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONHe who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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 Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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 an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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