I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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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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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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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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