Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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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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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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