Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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