In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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