I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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