It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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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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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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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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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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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