Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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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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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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