Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMost 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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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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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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