Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTalk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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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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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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The obscurest epoch is today.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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