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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEverybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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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 duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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