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 STEVENSONMarriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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