In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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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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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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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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