Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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