The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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 habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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