There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTalk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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