Morals Make Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson has 377 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
• An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but…
• I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding.…
• I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
• Saints are sinners who kept on going.
• All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
• In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat…
• It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in…
• Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the…
• To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow…
• If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may…
• All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

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