Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe obscurest epoch is today.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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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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