It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTalk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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