Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

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There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

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O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.

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It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man's plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed. Thenceforth he was a gentleman of leisure; and except the few whom we keep working, the whole race grew more and more self-conscious, mannered and affected.

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If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

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He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

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Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.

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If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

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If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.

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To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

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His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.

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Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.

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We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.

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

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I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.

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An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".

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When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

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A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?

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