159 ordspråk av Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
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If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel
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If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife
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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 be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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It is better to be a fool, than to be dead.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire
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