“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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“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
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“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”
— 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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“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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“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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“I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”
— 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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“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
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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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“Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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