If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe obscurest epoch is today.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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For my part, 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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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