Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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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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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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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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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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