Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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