There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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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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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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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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