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Robert Louis Stevenson
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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.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
— 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.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“So long as we love, we serve 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 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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“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.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition 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.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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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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“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.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Wine is bottled poetry.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.”
— 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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“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. 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.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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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.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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