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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#gentlemanly #sometimes #thing #very

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#boulder #expect #him #man #must

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#estate #great #grown #i #i am

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#destiny #divine #down #fathers #fatigue

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#come #crying #house #love #many

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#change #changes #does #essence #everything