Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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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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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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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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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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