I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONFiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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