Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOf what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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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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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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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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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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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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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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