Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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