Scottish - Writer | November 13, 1850 - December 3, 1894
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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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.
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