The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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