I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEach has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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