That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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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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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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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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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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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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