Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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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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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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