You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMan is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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