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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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