Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

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Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

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To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

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Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?" Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. "For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled:—and now I like ye better!

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No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

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There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

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I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.

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When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

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All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.

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There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

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Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for a moment venture to hint that it was a matter of taste; but I think I will go as far as this: that if a position is admittedly unkind, uncomfortable, unnecessary, and superfluously useless, although it were as respectableasthe Church of England, the sooner a man is out of it, the better for himself, and all concerned.

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Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

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Live life to the fullest.

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