In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing like a little judicious levity.
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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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
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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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I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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