Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevensonwas a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses...
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He travels best that knows when to return. Middleton 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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He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.
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There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy
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By the time a man gets into the seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say ""give them up,"" for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong
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The cruellest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean
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An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else