Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
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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 world has no room for cowards.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
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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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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
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