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 STEVENSONI travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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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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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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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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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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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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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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