There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIf your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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