Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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