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 STEVENSONThe body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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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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