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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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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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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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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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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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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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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