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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEveryone lives by selling something.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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