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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
"Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11."
"Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up."
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
"I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused."
"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it."
Explore more quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
"Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living."
"He felt ready to face the devil, and strutted in the ballroom with the swagger of a cavalier."
"A generous prayer is never presented in vain the petition may be refused but the petitioner is always I believe rewarded by some gracious visitation."
"It is a phrase that may well perplex a poor modern, girt about on every side by clocks and chimes...For we are all so busy, and have so many far-off projects to realise, and castles in the fire to turn into solid habitable mansions on a gravel soil, that we can find no time for pleasure trips into the Land of Thought and among the Hills of Vanity."
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