All Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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