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A friend is a present you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson.
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ISRAEL SHENKER
No author's writing more influenced my own than that of Robert Louis Stevenson. My first steampu...
JAMES BLAYLOCK
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is usele...
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Mealtime

"A mousie squealing in a trap
Woke me from my morning nap.
Wasn...
HENRY N. BEARD
So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost ind...
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So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indis...
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I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' b...
FRANCINE PASCAL
No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.
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Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I alway...
JANE BIRKIN
My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander D...
TERRY BROOKS
The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit...
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TO TRAVEL HOPEFULLY IS A BETTER THING THAN TO ARRIVE

(RLS, “El Dorado” (1878), in Vir...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his tr...
JOSHUA COHEN
Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.
LISA KLEYPAS
James Salter has been a fighter pilot, a rogue, and a climber. He counts Robert Redford as a friend.
STEPHEN RODRICK
I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy ...
IAN RANKIN
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
THOMAS FULLER
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
THOMAS FULLER
The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seu...
ROBERT PINSKY
No man knows he is young while he is young.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON
No man knows he is young while he is young.
G. K. CHESTERTON
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him e...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
What upsets me most is that our children are not protected. Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School is ...
DENISE SMITH
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will m...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office...
SHIRLEY MACLAINE
No man is a man until he has been a soldier.
LOUIS DE BERNIèRES
He who has a thousand friends
Has not a friend to spare,
While he who has one enemy
Shall m...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET)
Punishment is such a useless tool, it has no effect on the strong-willed or defiant. All punishment ...
BRANDON CHRISTOPHER
Man is a useless passion.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Nothing is useless to the man of sense, he turns everything to account
CHARLES FONTAINE
It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunit...
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There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFT
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into
JONATHAN SWIFT
Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is
OSCAR WILDE
What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotage...
NAOMI WOLF
I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new
JULES VERNE
Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Ste...
MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE
A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
GEORGE ADE
Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend...
FRANCIS BACON
Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend...
FRANCIS BACON SR.
The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where...
SARAH VOWELL
The best friend to a man is none than he himself.
ANUJ SOMANY
This man has no soul; he has no conscience.
ROSEMARY DILLARD
He had all the attributes...
THOMAS A. EDISON Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
No friend's a friend till [he shall] prove a friend.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER
He had all the a...
THOMAS A. EDISON I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, ...
ELVIS PRESLEY
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ENOCK MAREGESI
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
SHIRLEY MACLAINE
Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really ...
PLATO
A favorite has no friend!
THOMAS GRAY
Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.

The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS
Robert will have to make adjustments because he has never worked on blocking. He was a quarterback a...
BOB JACOBY
ROBERT ROTH: Going against the tide, no matter how gracefully, will beat you up after a while — al...
GREG PRATO
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen perso...
LUANNE RICE
The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
A man thinks he can fly, but he is afraid to jump. A poor friend pushes him from behind.” He looks...
PIERCE BROWN
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for ...
SHIRLEY MACLAINE
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wi...
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Tom Hanks is a good friend and I'm looking forward to seeing him playing the hero scientist Robert L...
DONNY OSMOND
Makin once told me that a man who's got no fear is missing a friend.
MARK LAWRENCE
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for...
OSCAR WILDE
Beware of a man, who has no enemy for he is enemy of all.
DR HITESH C SHETH
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
EDWARD ABBEY
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee.
ROBERT E. LEE
He was a good friend and a sweet, gentle man.
LAUREN ZIMMERMAN
It's one of the places that makes St. Louis an interesting city. It has a Cheers-like quality. After...
BILL BAY
A man who makes a plate or a shirt or a loaf of bread or anything our great great ancestors called a...
RENé DAUMAL
He has no enemy, you say; My friend your boast is poor, He who hath mingled in the fray ...
ALEXANDER ANTON VON AUERSPERG ("ANASTASIUS GRUN")
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
JOSE MARTI
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Business is like a man rowing a boat upstream. He has no choice; he must go ahead or he will go back...
LEWIS E. PIERSON
God is the Man, and there's another Man, Stan 'The Man' Musial in St. Louis.
ALBERT PUJOLS
Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true frien...
L. RON HUBBARD
Man, I love coming home. St. Louis is actually hard to capture.
CHINGY
No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.
B. F. SKINNER
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the m...
HENRY GEORGE
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, an...
ALAN PATON
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JOHNSON
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JONSON
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.
C.S. LEWIS
Louis has a masterful ability to draw on things that really happen. He has found a way to incorporat...
DAVID BERTHOLD
No man can give what he has not
LEGAL MAXIM
I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man: neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhi...
SOCRATES
Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved
CHARLES LAMB
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
EURIPIDES
No one has a closest friend in Hollywood.
SHEILAH GRAHAM
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and where ever he may be placed, the...
HENRY GEORGE
We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. - Robert Bloch
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have call...
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-b...
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
The obscurest epoch is today.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end,...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
TO TRAVEL HOPEFULLY IS A BETTER THING THAN TO ARRIVE

(RLS, “El Dorado” (1878), in Vir...
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His stories were what frightened people worst of all. Dreadful stories they were--about hanging, and...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.
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So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indis...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Love- what is love?
A great and aching heart;
Wrung hands;
and silence;
and a lo...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duti...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and bo...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
You cannot run away from a weakness, you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, w...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
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Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunit...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
No baggage - there was the secret of existence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.
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Before us, over the tree tops, we beheld a great field of open sea to the East. Sheer above us rose ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years,...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere an...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a milli...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to pr...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
By the time a man gets into the seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says n...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
I'm cap'n here by 'lection. I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long sea-mile. You won't fi...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
To the Hesitating Purchaser:

"If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure,...
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I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own w...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Noh, tead, abielu on nagu surm, see jõuab kord kõigile kätte," ütles Dick alistuvalt.
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Captain," said the squire, "the house is quite invisible from the ship. It must be the flag they are...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it
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