Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

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.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it...

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it...

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we...

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we...

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably...

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably...

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...

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage...

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage...

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and...

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and...

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon...

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon...

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there...

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there...

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes...

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes...

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible...

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible...

I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the...

I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the...

Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong, Yet hate is short, and...

Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong, Yet hate is short, and...

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.