An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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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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