You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBooks are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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