Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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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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When 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.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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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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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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