The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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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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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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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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