For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONFiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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 are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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