A friend is a gift you give yourself.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEach has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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