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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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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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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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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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