I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWhen a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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