It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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.
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