The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBooks are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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