To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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