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 STEVENSONThe truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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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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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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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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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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