You can kill the body but not the spirit.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEach has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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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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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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