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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

«No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson (Author, Essayist, Poet) | About: Literature | Keywords: scenery
«Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand»
«Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it»
«You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.»
«Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.»
«It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.»
«A friend is a present you give to yourself.»
«There is but one art, to omit.»
«A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.»
«There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.»