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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For 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 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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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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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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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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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