Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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It 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.
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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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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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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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