I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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 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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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