It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONHe who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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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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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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For my part, 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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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.
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