Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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 wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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