The 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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONA friend is a gift you give yourself.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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 travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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 web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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