There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNo man is useless while he has a friend.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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