We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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 are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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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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