When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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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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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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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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.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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