Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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You 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?
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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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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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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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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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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