Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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