An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing made by brute force lasts.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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