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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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Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
— Aesop
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Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet…
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Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!
— Wallace Shawn
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Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.
— Howard Zinn
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Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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The man who enters combat encased in solid armor plate, but lacking the essential of selfconfidence, is far more exposed and naked…
— Robert S. Johnson
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Consensus is a poor substitute for leadership.
— Charlotte Beers
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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
— Benjamin Cardozo
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Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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For people who cannot get to church for various reasons, this is a great option. But it will always be a poor…
— Craig Detweiler
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Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a…
— Arthur Erickson
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