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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
Written by 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.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
Everyone lives by selling something.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson

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