Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAll human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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