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’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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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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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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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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