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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWhen I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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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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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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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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