Nothing like a little judicious levity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBooks are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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