When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe obscurest epoch is today.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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