No man is useless while he has a friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWhen it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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