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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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Nothing made by brute force lasts. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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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. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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