Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIf your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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 a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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 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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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