You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONCompromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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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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 never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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