The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONCompromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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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