Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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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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