Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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