It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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The world has no room for cowards.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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