Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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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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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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