To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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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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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.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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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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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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