Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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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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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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