Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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