Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMan is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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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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