An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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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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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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