Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOnce you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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