The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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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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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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