Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

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Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.

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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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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

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The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.

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The obscurest epoch is to-day.

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

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

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Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?

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Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

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A friend is a gift you give yourself.

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Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.

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A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man.

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The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.

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

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One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.

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Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.

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Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

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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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