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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMan is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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For my part, 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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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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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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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