The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONLife is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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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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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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