Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEvery heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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