Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWhen 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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For my part, 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 be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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