All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBy being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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