In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSo 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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