The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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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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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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