I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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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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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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