So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
More Quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson:
You can kill the body but not the spirit.Robert Louis Stevenson
My love was warm; for that I crossed
The mountains and the sea,
Nor counted that endeavour lost
That gave my love to me.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Small is the trust when love is green
In sap of early years;
A little thing steps in between
And kisses turn to tears.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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