I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEverybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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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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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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