Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONCompromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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