Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONCompromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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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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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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