The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONA friend is a gift you give yourself.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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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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