I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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