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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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 a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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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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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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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
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