Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAbsences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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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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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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