To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.
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The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.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
Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
I feel very strongly about putting questions it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment.
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
There is but one art, to omit.
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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