Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONVanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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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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