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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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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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Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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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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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
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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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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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