In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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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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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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Wine is bottled poetry.
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