The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.Robert Louis Stevenson
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children who has filled his niche and accomplished his task, who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauties, nor failed to express it who has always looked for the best in others and given the best he had whose life is an inspiration whose memory a benediction.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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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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.
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