I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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