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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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For my part, 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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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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