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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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The...

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The...

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and...

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and...

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

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

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

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...

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite...

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite...

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

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.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

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

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

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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

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

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.

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream,...

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream,...

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship...

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship...

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.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it...

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it...

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.