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" To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Sense
Identity
Idle
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" Wine is bottled poetry. "
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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. "
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" I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
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You
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" It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. "
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Eyes
" The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Weapon
Truth
" Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. "
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Lawyer
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" You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. "
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You
Long
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" The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. "
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Mark
Action
Appears
" 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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Like
" Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Down
Later
Consequences
" We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series. "
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Live
One Thing
Scale
" There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Progress
Everything
Changes
" The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Number
Happy
World
" 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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Man
Toys
Tell
" To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Motivational
Life
Some
" The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Know
Eye
Friend
" The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Pay
Money
Liberty
" Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Long
Conversation
Disputes
" Nothing made by brute force lasts. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Brute
Nothing
Force
" 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
Others
Friend
Long
" It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. "
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Mark
Inevitable
Appears
" You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Love
Give
Giving
" A friend is a gift you give yourself. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
You
Yourself
Friend
" That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Lived
Well
Success
" Nothing like a little judicious levity. "
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Little
Levity
Humor
" There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Lands
Foreign
Only
" Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Man
Play
Fiction
" 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
Success
Fame
Trade
" All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. "
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Until
Language
Dead