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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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