I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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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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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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