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 STEVENSONAn aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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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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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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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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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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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