Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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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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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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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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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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