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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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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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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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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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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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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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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