Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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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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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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