To forget oneself is to be happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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