To forget oneself is to be happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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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I 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.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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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