We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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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 human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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