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Quotes from The Silverado Squatters — Robert Louis Stevenson

1850–1894 Scotland

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The old land is still the true love, the others are but pleasant infidelities.

The Silverado Squatters (1883)

But the more he is alone with nature, the greater man and his doings bulk in the consideration of his fellow-men.

The Silverado Squatters (1883)

This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.

The Silverado Squatters (1883)

And perhaps this habit of much travel, and the engendering of scattered friendships, may prepare the euthanasia of ancient nations.

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Sight-seeing is the art of disappointment.

The Silverado Squatters (1883)

The imagination loves to trifle with what is not.

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There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign, and now and again, by a flash of recollection, lights up the contrasts of the ear.

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It is the worst of all quaint and of all cheap ways of life that they bring us at last to the pinch of some humiliation.

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Wherever a man is, there will be a lie.

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Sanity itself is a kind of convention.

The Silverado Squatters (1883)

The wine is bottled poetry.

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If wine is to withdraw its most poetic countenance, the sun of the white dinner-cloth, a deity to be invoked by two or three, all fervent, hushing their talk, degusting tenderly, and storing reminiscences—for a bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect—if wine is to desert us, go thy ways, old Jack!

The Silverado Squatters (1883)

Though the coming of the day is still the most inspiriting, yet day's departure, also, and the return of night refresh, renew, and quiet us; and in the pastures of the dusk we stand, like cattle, exulting in the absence of the load.

The Silverado Squatters (1883)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Louis Stevenson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.