There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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