To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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 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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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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