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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONA friend is a gift you give yourself.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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