Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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.
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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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