Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONVanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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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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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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