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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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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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I've a grand memory for forgetting.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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The world has no room for cowards.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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The body is a house of many windows: There we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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Wine is bottled poetry.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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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.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable, and no man is useless while he has a friend.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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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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