I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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