"To know what you prefer instead of humbly……" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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364 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign…
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of…
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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we…
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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the…
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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon…
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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of…
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for…
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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