It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWell, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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