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Most Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they…
- If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.
- Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.
- 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…
- Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their…
- We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of…
- There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance…
- In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and…
- Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
- The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
- It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the…
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