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 is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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