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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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