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Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
- That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
- The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
- The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
- The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
- The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
- 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.
- There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
- There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
- There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
- To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
- To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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