I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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