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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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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

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