Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOnce you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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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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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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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