There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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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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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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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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