There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.


The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, with Bibliographical Notes by Edmund Grosse (ed. 1907)

Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.