Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEven 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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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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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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