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Children, you are very little, And your bones are very brittle. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Be it granted me to behold you again in dying, Hills of home! View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Pieces of eight, pieces of eight, pieces of eight! View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Time passes quickly with lovers. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
A woman can earn her pardon for a good year of disobedience by a single adroit submission. View quote
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In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for practical existence. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
A woman loves to be obeyed at first, although afterwards she finds her pleasure in obeying. View quote
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But the more he is alone with nature, the greater man and his doings bulk in the consideration of his fellow-men. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The imagination loves to trifle with what is not. View quote
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Sanity itself is a kind of convention. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. View quote
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. View quote
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide. View quote
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. View quote
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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. View quote
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own. View quote
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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. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. View quote
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage. View quote
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends? (Robert Louis Stevenson)
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. View quote
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly. View quote
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson