Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIf your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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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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