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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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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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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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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