The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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