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Robert Louis Stevenson

"To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man."

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"To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man."

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"And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven."

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"Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."

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"Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds."

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"The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity."

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"Life is indeed terribly complicated-to a man who has lost his principles."

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"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn."

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"Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral."

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"So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others I would almost say that we are indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend."
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"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things."
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"Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life."
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"I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered."
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"There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last."
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"So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."
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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."
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