Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.

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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

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It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.

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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

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And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

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The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

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If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

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The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room.

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The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.

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Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with the stars to see, Bread I dip in the river There's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever.

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We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.

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Youth now flees on feathered foot.

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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.

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To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.

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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

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I wish these flies would piss off.

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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

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If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

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