All Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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