The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONHe who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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