You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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