Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWine is bottled poetry.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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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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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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