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Letter "R" » Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
«It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.»
«Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Food
| Keywords:
cheese, cheeses, dreamed, Long Night, mostly, The Long, The Long Night, toasted, toasting
«Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.»
«For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfo»
«Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Life,
Marriage
| Keywords:
bed of roses, field of battle
«If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
lowest, matrimony, police, recognised, The Police
«We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Best friend,
Friends,
Friendship,
Life,
Travel
| Keywords:
the Wilderness, travels, wilderness
«A friend is a gift you give yourself.»
«Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life»
«You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else»
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