If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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 Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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 I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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