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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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