It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe cruelest lies are often told in silence.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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