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 STEVENSONI regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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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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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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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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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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