A friend is a gift you give yourself.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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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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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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