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Letter "R" » Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
«The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Literature,
Writing
| Keywords:
affect, difficulty, literature, precisely, reader
«Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
police, policed, policing, recognized, The Police
«The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Evil
| Keywords:
devil, gentlemanly, the Devil
«You can kill the body but not the spirit.»
«All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.»
«Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.»
«There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.»
«Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Graduation,
Imagination,
Life,
Planning
| Keywords:
harvest, reap, Seeds, The Harvest, The Seeds
«Youth is wholly experimental»
«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.»
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