The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAll speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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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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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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Everybody, soon or late, 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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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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