Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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.
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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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It 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.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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