I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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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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Nothing made by brute force lasts.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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