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If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
By Robert Louis Stevenson
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
By Robert Louis Stevenson