The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBut to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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