I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONQuiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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