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People Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
- If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you…
- Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.
- Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and…
- If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.
- The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee…
- ...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do…
- If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife
- Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their…
- 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…
- There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my…
- There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among…
- It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the…
- It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.
- Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
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