Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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 web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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