Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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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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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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