Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing made by brute force lasts.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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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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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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