You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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