Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing like a little judicious levity.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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