But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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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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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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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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