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 STEVENSONThere is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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