It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIn marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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