There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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