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

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke...

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke...

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly.

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By...

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By...

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

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

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

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

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by...

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by...

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.

Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a...

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a...

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly wide

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly wide

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which...

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which...

A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable...

A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable...

Perversity is the muse of modern literature

Perversity is the muse of modern literature