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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWell, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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For my part, 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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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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