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His Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
- If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
- In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
- Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
- Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
- Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
- It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would…
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