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 STEVENSONAbsences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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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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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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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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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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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 are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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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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Everyone lives by selling something.
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