For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAbsences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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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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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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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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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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