To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson
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More Quotes By Robert Louis Stevenson
  1. So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
  2. You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
  3. Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
  4. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
  5. I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
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