When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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 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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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