Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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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