Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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