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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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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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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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