By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIn marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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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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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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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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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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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.
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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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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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