It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEveryone lives by selling something.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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