An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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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 obscurest epoch is today.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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For my part, 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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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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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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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