Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe cruelest lies are often told in silence.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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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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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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