Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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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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