It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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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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