Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?

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-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.

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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

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You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were.

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I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

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A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.

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There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation; their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape.

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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

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To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

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Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill.

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Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.

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The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

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Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

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Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

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When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.

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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

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A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

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In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

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When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.

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Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

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