You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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