I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBut to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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