I've a grand memory for forgetting.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.

I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish;...

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish;...

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it...

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it...

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite...

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite...

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in...

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in...

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about...

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about...

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your...

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your...

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety...

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety...

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there...

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there...

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Wine is bottled poetry.