To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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