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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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Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.
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[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to…
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The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or…
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An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.
— C.S. Lewis
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Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
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Although I'm a Scot, I'd be proud to be called a Scouser.
— Bill Shankly
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No Scot ever made a bigger impact on a club than Bill Shankly. Others may claim an equal share of trophies and…
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But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good…
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Nobody thought Mel Gibson could play a Scot, but look at him now! Alcoholic and a racist!
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No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.
— Susie Orbach
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As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister
— Boris Johnson
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My caddy today was a Scot and he told me that he was cheering for Australia, which I thought was a bit…
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