Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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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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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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