I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONFiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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For my part, 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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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