I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONA friend is a gift you give yourself.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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The obscurest epoch is today.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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