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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

«It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson (Author, Essayist, Poet) | About: Modesty | Keywords: Ready made
«Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.»
«By the time a man gets into the seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson (Author, Essayist, Poet) | About: Age | Keywords: seventies
«A man who has been three years biting his nails on a desert island can't expect to appear as sane as you and me.»
«There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy»
«Every man is his own doctor of divinity in the last resort»
«You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; 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.»
«The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.»
«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.»
«Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?»

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