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 STEVENSONWe 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.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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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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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
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By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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