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 STEVENSONThe correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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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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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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