Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

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Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.

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We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.

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A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

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The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.

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Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

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A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

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Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips.

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I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.

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Live life to the fullest.

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Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

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Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for a moment venture to hint that it was a matter of taste; but I think I will go as far as this: that if a position is admittedly unkind, uncomfortable, unnecessary, and superfluously useless, although it were as respectableasthe Church of England, the sooner a man is out of it, the better for himself, and all concerned.

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Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?

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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

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There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.

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Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

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His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.

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