All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIf a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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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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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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