There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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