Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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