To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The world has no room for cowards.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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