Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMan is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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So 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.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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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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