There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe obscurest epoch is today.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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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.
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