It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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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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