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 STEVENSONThe truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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