In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere 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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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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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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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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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
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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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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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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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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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