To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBut 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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 should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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When 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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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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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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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