It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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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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