It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The world has no room for cowards.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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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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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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