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Robert Louis Stevenson has 377 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but…
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding.…
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat…
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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in…
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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the…
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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow…
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may…
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's…
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Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
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... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.
— William Cowper
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I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
— Marie de France
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Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
— Samuel Richardson
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
— Charles Lamb
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Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were…
— John Flavel
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Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.
— Robert Lloyd
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