Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEverybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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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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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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