Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEveryone lives by selling something.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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