The obscurest epoch is today.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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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...

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...

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

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...

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

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

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

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

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.

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...

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another...

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another...

I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the...

I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the...

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his...

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his...

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

The world has no room for cowards.

The world has no room for cowards.

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...

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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 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.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.