For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWhen 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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To 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.
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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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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