We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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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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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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