Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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