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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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