An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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