Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONLife is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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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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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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