The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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