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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson When 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.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson 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.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson Nothing like a little judicious levity.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson
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