Everyone lives by selling something.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONVanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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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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