There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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