It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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