It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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 know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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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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