Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONCompromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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