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Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
- I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
- I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
- I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
- If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
- In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
- It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
- It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
- It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
- It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
- It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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