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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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