I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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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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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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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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