A friend is a gift you give yourself.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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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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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