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.
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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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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But 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.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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