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Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

"It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. what may be called a phenomenon, no matter in what sphere." — Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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"Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords." — Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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"Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity" — Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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"I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral." — Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life." — Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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"If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife" — Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions." — Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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"Youth is wholly experimental" — Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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"Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age." — Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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"In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being." — Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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"It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity." — Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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"In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations." — Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign." — Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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"No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable." — Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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"When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys." — Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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"I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion." — Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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"The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect." — Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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"To forget oneself is to be happy." — Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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"Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences." — Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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"Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes." — Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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"The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys." — Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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