The obscurest epoch is today.
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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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