The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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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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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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