You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMan is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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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 the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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