It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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