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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life
By Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might;
to eat with apple tart.
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might;
to eat with apple tart.
By Robert Louis Stevenson