We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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