Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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