Everyone lives by selling something.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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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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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 is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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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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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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