For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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