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 STEVENSONWell, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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