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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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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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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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