Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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