There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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 never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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But 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.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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