The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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For my part, 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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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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