We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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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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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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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