Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSo 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.
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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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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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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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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