There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONA friend is a gift you give yourself.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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