It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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