Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWhen I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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