To forget oneself is to be happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWhen I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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.
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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