Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAll speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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 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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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