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 STEVENSONOne person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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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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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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