To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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