All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSo long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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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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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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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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