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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
You 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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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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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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