Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOf what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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