Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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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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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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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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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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