Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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All round your head be angels.Robert Louis Stevenson
You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
Robert Louis Stevenson
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality they are the perfect duties. If your morals make you dreary, depend on it they are wrong. I do not say, 'give them up,' for they may be all you have but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better men.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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