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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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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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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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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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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