I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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