The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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