You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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