Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can kill the body but not the spirit.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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