If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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 never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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