An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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