Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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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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