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 STEVENSONTo forget oneself is to be happy.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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