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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEven 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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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