All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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