Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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