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.
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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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There 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.
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