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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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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.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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