It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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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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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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