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

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes...

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes...

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there...

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there...

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in...

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in...

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon...

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon...

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can...

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can...

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost...

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost...

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

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

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

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

The cruelest lies are often told in silence

The cruelest lies are often told in silence

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

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...

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is...

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is...

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

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

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

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind...

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind...

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.