There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBooks are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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 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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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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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 an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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