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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOnce you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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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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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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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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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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