An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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 costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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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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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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