Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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