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Letter "R" » Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
«It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity.»
«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.»
«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»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
underrate, underrates, underrating
«Every man is his own doctor of divinity in the last resort»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
Doctor of Divinity, 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.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Marriage
| Keywords:
disquisition, dissolution, philosophical
«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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