The obscurest epoch is today.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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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.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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