To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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