Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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One 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.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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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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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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