I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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