Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONCompromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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