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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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For my part, 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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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