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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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 habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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