All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOur business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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