To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONPolitics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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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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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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