All Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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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, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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