Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.

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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.

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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.

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Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

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

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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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Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.

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The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. - Rain

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my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.

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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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A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

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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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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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No man is useless while he has a friend.

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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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