I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONLife is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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