Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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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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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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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.
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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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