It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEveryone lives by selling something.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing like a little judicious levity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe 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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEvery man has a sane spot somewhere.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMost 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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can kill the body but not the spirit.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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