You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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