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We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Friend

Wilderness

World

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life

End

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Leading

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life

Difference

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

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Quiet

Solitude

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

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Kings

World

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life

Exercise

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Boys

Girls

Man

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Change

Progress

Years

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Body

Spirit

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Love

Giving

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson