159 ordspråk av Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.
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Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is - nor yet so good a Christian
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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