Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBooks are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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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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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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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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