An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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