Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIn marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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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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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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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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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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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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