Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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When 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.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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