Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

• Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.

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• Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule) no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke.

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• Even if we take marriage at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police.

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• And you have only to look these happy couples in the face, to see they have never been in love, or in hate, or in any other high passion all their days.

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• I see women marry indiscriminately with staring burgesses and ferret-faced, white-eyed boys, and men dwell in contentment with noisy scullions, or taking into their lives acidulous vestals.

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• The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it in our hearts either to marry or not to marry. Marriage is terrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.

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• To live out of doors with the woman a man loves is of all lives the most complete and free.

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• I own I like definite form in what my eyes are to rest upon; and if landscapes were sold, like the sheets of characters of my boyhood, one penny plain and twopence coloured, I should go the length of twopence every day of my life.

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• For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

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• The most patient people grow weary at last with being continually wetted with rain; except, of course, in the Scottish Highlands, where there are not enough fine intervals to point the difference.

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• If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.

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• The gauger walked with willing foot, And aye the gauger played the flute; And what should Master Gauger play But Over the hills and far away?

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• For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so. And for certain the one is a great deal better for the health.

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• To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived.

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• Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

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• There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

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• There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

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• 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.

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• Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

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• I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

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Robert Louis Stevenson (164)

Birth:	13th November, 1850
Death:	3rd December, 1894
Nationality:	Scottish
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Poet

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Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

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