Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNo man is useless while he has a friend.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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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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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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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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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
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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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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Wine is bottled poetry.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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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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