There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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The obscurest epoch is today.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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