The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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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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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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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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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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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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