Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

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With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.

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I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.

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It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.

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The obscurest epoch is to-day.

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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

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Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.

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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

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Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes

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If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

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We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

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When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that.

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It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

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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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The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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

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It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man's plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed. Thenceforth he was a gentleman of leisure; and except the few whom we keep working, the whole race grew more and more self-conscious, mannered and affected.

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