We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWine is bottled poetry.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The world has no room for cowards.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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When 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.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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It 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.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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