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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWhen a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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