“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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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.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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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.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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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.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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“You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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“It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.”
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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“Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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“For God’s sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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“The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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