The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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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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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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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