Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAn elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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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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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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