I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEveryone lives by selling something.
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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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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