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«Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.»
«The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Sex
| Keywords:
astonishingly, catchword, catchwords, rift, rifted, sexes, The Boys, widened
«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.»
«Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
accessible, by far, completes, enjoyed, fostered, fostering, fosters, founds, friendships, Money Talks
«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.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
afterward, lie down, thankfulness, turn to
«It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.»
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
agreeable, Bright Eyes, destitute, destitute of, dozen, flexibility, precarious, reposes, stamped, stroke, two dozen, wealthy, wealthy man
«If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel»
«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.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Growing up
| Keywords:
estate, meddle, meddle with, toys
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