An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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It 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.
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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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