If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONHe who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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But 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.
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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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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