Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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