I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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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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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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