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.
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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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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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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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