We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONA friend is a gift you give yourself.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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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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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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