The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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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 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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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