Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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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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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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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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