Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

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  The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture:

• Robert Louis Stevenson:

  It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

• Robert Louis Stevenson:

  There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousan

• Robert Louis Stevenson:

  We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should ne

• Robert Louis Stevenson:

  If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have c

• Robert Louis Stevenson:

  All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

• Robert Louis Stevenson:

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

• Robert Louis Stevenson:

  Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

• Robert Louis Stevenson:

  Everyone lives by selling something.

• Robert Louis Stevenson:

  Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.