The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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 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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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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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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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 has no room for cowards.
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