Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand
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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
There is but one art, to omit.
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
A man who has been three years biting his nails on a desert island can't expect to appear as sane as you and me.
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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