Scottish - Writer | November 13, 1850 - December 3, 1894
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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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 are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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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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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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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It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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