An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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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 a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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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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