Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONPerpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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