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

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• Robert Louis Stevenson:

  All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

• Robert Louis Stevenson:

  To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.