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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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 travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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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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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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