To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMan is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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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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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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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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