Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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