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

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly.

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there...

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there...

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you...

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you...

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The...

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The...

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do...

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do...

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

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

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

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

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

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in...

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in...

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you...

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you...

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and...

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and...

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

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

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success...

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success...

Nothing succeeds like -- failure.

Nothing succeeds like -- failure.

Truth, self control, asceticism, generosity, non-injury, constancy in virtue Ã³ these are the means of...

Truth, self control, asceticism, generosity, non-injury, constancy in virtue Ã³ these are the means of...

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that...

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that...