It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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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 duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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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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The world has no room for cowards.
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