Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can kill the body but not the spirit.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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