I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBut to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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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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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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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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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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