It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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