Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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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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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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