There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing made by brute force lasts.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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