It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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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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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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