All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing like a little judicious levity.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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But 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.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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