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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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 is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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