There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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 made by brute force lasts.
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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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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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