Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNo man is useless while he has a friend.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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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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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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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For my part, 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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