The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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