There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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The obscurest epoch is today.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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 live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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I 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.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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