More from Robert Louis Stevenson

  1. There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about yo…
  2. A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into …
  3. Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
  4. A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
  5. Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
  6. To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
  7. All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. The follies of youth have a basis in sound r…
  8. Fifteen men on the dead man's chest - Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest - Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of …

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