For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWhen 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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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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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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