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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Man
Every one lives by selling something.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Selling
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Consequences
Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Selling
Right
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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Life
Fiction
Man
Play
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Travel
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Courage
Strength
Enemies
Friends
Grace
Mind
Quiet
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Day
Harvest
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Identity
Sense
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Art
Literature
Style
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Man
Vanity
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Travel
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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Soul
Saying
World
To forget oneself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Forget
To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Life
End