It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The world has no room for cowards.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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