It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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