Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw your means of subsistence. I sometimes wonder how many people of talent are executed in this way every year.

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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. And how many loves have perished because, from pride, or spite, or diffidence, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion, a lover, at the critical point of the relation, has but hung his head and held his tongue?

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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

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The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

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Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

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I've a grand memory for forgetting.

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I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

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Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

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Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.

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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

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When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

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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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There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.

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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

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Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle

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Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.

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The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.

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It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is... to live forever.

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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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