An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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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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