All 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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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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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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The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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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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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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