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Robert Louis Stevenson quotes

Scottish novelist and essayist (1850-1894), author of Treasure Island.

• Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

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• Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

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• As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed and narrowed theirs by a life of all work and no play.

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• To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

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• There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

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