Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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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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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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