Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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