I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONA friend is a gift you give yourself.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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