To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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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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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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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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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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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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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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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