Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWhen 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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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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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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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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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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For my part, 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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