It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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 never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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