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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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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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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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