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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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