Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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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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