It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing like a little judicious levity.
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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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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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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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