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Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good....

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good....

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety...

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety...

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And...

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And...

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly wide

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly wide

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...

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

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.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we...

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we...

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand...

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand...

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells...

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells...

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...

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there...

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there...

One day it's going to dawn on the human race that war is as barbaric...

One day it's going to dawn on the human race that war is as barbaric...