I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBy being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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