We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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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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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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