Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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