An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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