The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBut 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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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 mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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