Nothing like a little judicious levity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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