I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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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 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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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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