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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

Robert Louis Stevenson

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

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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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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

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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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

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To forget oneself is to be happy.

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When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

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I've a grand memory for forgetting.

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The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

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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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You can kill the body but not the spirit.

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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

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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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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

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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.

Robert Louis Stevenson