By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOld and young, we are all on our last cruise.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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