It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONFor my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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