There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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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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