Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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