Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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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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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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