It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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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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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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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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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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