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.
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 think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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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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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
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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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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
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