An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONCompromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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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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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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For my part, 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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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