If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAll speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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