Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson Download Open image ““Let the sofa be mountains, the carpet be sea, There I'll establish a city for me.”” — Robert Louis Stevenson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
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Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
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Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
