You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONFor my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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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The obscurest epoch is today.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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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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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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