Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMan is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONGive us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAn elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONKeep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOnce you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEvery heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAn aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing like a little judicious levity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIf your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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