An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONLife is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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