Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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 be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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